Can we have low-carbon hypermobility? Should we even be thinking about it? 2050 Vision: Transport and social planning in a decarbonised world, EU Green Week, Brussels. See Quis custodiet ipsos custodes for an overview of the the MIT and Brussels conferences.

Cycle Lanes in Urban Areas: for and against CTC/CCN Conference Warrington 12 November 2005

14/09/2005

Embedding the principles of risk management Presentation for UCL’s Risk Management Working Group 14 September 2005

12/09/2005

Fear, Psychiatry and the State North London Forensic Service, 8th International Conference Cambridge, 12 September 2005

28/06/2005

Challenges to Quantifying the Risks of Terrorism Technology for Security and Resilience, Conference, Royal United Services Institute London, 28, June 2005

24/06/2005

The Management of Road Safety: Risk compensation versus thecrash-test dummy theory of human behaviour Lecture sponsored by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Dept of Transportation, US Dept of Transportation, CUNY and New York University 24 June 2005

Streets and Public Places: what are we scared of? The Shared Space Conference Ipswich, 7 June 2005

27/05/2005

Future Challenges: Living with Risk – a speech by the PrimeMinister Invited commentator along with the Lord Chancellor and the Director General of the Association of British Insurers. An Institute of Public Policy Research event, supported by the ABI University of London, 27 May 2005

Debate: “This house believes that charging is the panaceafor road congestion” London Transport Museum, March 15, 2005 Proposing the motion: David Begg and Duncan Matheson Opposing the motion: Steven Norris and John Adams Motion defeated 30:2. Result significantly affected by proposer, David Begg, opposing the motion.

Handling Uncertainty and Managing Risk: Keeping a Sense of Proportion in a Culture of Increasing Risk AversionFor the Science Society and the Natural Science Club of UCLAfter dinner talk for Christmas Meeting, 16 December 2003

18/11/2003

The War on TerrorismGoodenough-Chevening ConferenceGoodenough College, 18-19 November 2003

12/11/2003

In defence of bad luckImperial College MSc in Env.Tech. Seminar, 12 November 2003

11/11/2003

The Social Consequences of HypermobilityCommunity Transport Association Conference, Manchester, 11 November 2003

03/11/2003

Do we have enough injidents?: The costs of excessive risk aversionCHIME Seminar, UCLH, 3 November 2003

23/10/2003

Handling Uncertainty and Managing Risk: Keeping a sense of proportion in a culture of increasing risk aversionSeminar for the Cabinet Office, 23 October 2003

21/10/2003

Delivering a Fire and Rescue Service for the 21st CenturyDeveloping an Effective Approach to Risk Management QMW Public Policy Seminars for Cabinet Office, 21 October 2003

29/09/2003

The role of risk assessment and the need for a sense of proportionSeminar for the University of Surrey, 29 September 2003

22/08/2003

Risk assessment and the need for a sense of proportionSeminar for European Round Table, 22 August 2003

11/08/2003

Risk assessment and the need for a sense of proportionSeminar for Roffey Park Business School, 11 August 2003

Risk in a Hypermobile World: the problem of trust School of Government, University of Tasmania, August 2002

21/06/2002

Biotechnology ethics and public perceptions of biotechnology Attitudes to risk: The costs of excessive risk aversion Presentation for European Federation of Biotechnology, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 21 June 2002

Virtual risk and the management of uncertainty Risk assessment – a sensible or stupid notion? British and Irish Group for the study of personality disorders Imperial College London, 23 & 24 September 1999

13/07/1999

Quantitative risk assessment: problems and limits or, Is it possible to be rational about risk? Debate with Adrian Smith, President Royal Statistical Society Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference University of Warwick, 13 July 1999

19/05/1999

Risk, a Seminar for the Navy 19 May 1999

15/01/1999

The Sustainability of Air Traffic Growth Trends Presentation for CAA, 15 January 1999